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Intranet Global Forum 2015 L.A

Global Conference for Intranet Executives, Managers & Contributors.

June 2015, Los Angeles

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The Intranet Global Forum 2015 is North America’s leading dedicated conference on intranets with a specialized focus on the design, governance and management of enterprise intranets and social intranets.

THE NEED

The corporate intranet, long neglected and underfunded, has bounded forward several evolutionary leaps in the past two years. In particular, social media and SharePoint are dominating most intranet agendas, or considerations for the future. Many organizations, however, still suffer from sub-par intranets with poor funding, governance, and continual problems regarding content, search, and information architecture.

The Intranet Global Forum 2015 provides intranet executives and managers in communications, IT and HR with all the tools they need to understand the recent changes, and the fundamental skills for designing, deploying and governing a new era intranet.

AUDIENCE

The Intranet Global Forum is ideal for executives and managers that are involved in a new intranet launch, redesign, or technology shift, and for those that manage technical, business and content components of a corporate intranet or portal.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Steve Crescenzo, Principal, Crescenzo Communication
Through his work as a consultant, writer and seminar leader, Steve Crescenzo has helped thousands of communicators improve both their print and electronic communication efforts. Steve has been voted the number one seminar leader for the IABC Global Conference for three consecutive years (2008-2010), and has been asked to speak in IABCs “All Star Track” for the past five years. Steve also speaks at numerous IABC chapter and regional events throughout North America and Europe.

Toby Ward, CEO, Prescient Digital Media (CAN)
Founder and Chair of the Intranet Global Forum, Toby is one of the World’s most widely-seen intranet speakers, and read intranet writers, with dozens of leading clients including Harvard, HSBC, Nintendo, Pepsi, Sodexo, and many more. He is the CEO, and founder of Prescient Digital Media, and Social Business Interactive, and is the founder and principal writer at IntranetBlog.com.

HOSTED BY

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CASE STUDY SPEAKERS

	Gloria Burke Chief Knowledge Officer, Unisys Social Business Convergence – Federating Intranet and Extranet Environments - edit
	Denise Tanguay Director of Workforce Communications, Scripps Health Social Intranet Case Study
	Hope Niblick Web Collaboration Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories Get Your Company to Participate in Collaboration
	Caroline Leach Vice President of Communications
	Ken Barnett Sr. Manager, Design & Operations, Disney Consumer Products Disney Intranet Case Study

AGENDA

DAY 1: WORKSHOPS

8:45am – 9:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Lee Hornick, Honorary Chair of Forum (USA)

9:00am – 12:00pm

Social content management: managing content in the social intranet

Toby Ward, CEO, Prescient Digital Media (Canada)

It used to be said that feeding the intranet was akin to feeding a monster - scary, insatiable, and growing at a rate exponentially faster than the biggest teenager. Today, our ability to create content easily outstrips our ability to easily manage and retrieve it.

This in-depth workshop will discuss the deep principles and practices of content management, and specifically, managing social content on social intranets. e Toby Ward, founder and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, will teach you:

· Content management principles

· Rules for creating intranet content

· Writing for the intranet

· Empowering employees to create the RIGHT CONTENT

· The types of different content management technologies

· Dos and Don'ts for CMS's and SharePoint

· Policies for managing content writers and contributors

Toby Ward 2013 Founder and Chair of the Intranet Global Forum, Toby is one of the World’s most widely-seen intranet speakers, and read intranet writers, with dozens of leading clients including Harvard, HSBC, Pepsi, Sony, and many more. Toby is the CEO and founder of Prescient Digital Media, a multiple award winner including Gold Quill and Webby Awards, and founded and writes for the first & most prominent blog dedicated to intranets, IntranetBlog.com

12pm – 1pm

Networking Lunch (catered)

1:00pm – 4:30pm

Use your intranet to drive employee engagement

Steve Crescenzo, Principal, Crescenzo Communications

Engaging employees is a complicated process . . . but communicators

and their online tools can play a critical role in making it happen

Creating an engaged workforce is a complicated process that involves the entire organization—from leaders and managers to HR and Communications. The question is, where does communications fit in the process? What is our role? How can we use our intranets and other online, social, and multimedia tools to drive employee engagement? In this practical session, noted employee communication expert Steve Crescenzo will show you:

· How to use your existing online communications channels to reach, motivate, and engage your workforce—even if you don’t have an intranet with all the latest bells and whistles

· How to tap into the power of the latest communications tools—including social media and multimedia—to drive employee engagement

· How to help coach your leaders so that they are using the intranet to help the engagement effort, rather than hurting it

· Five things you can do online that will help employees feel like “owners” of the company

· How to involve employees themselves in the engagement process—through the use of your online communication channels.

· How to write content for your intranet that will reach, engage, and inspire employees

Through his work as a consultant, writer and seminar leader, Steve Crescenzo has helped thousands of communicators improve both their print and electronic communication efforts. Steve has been voted the number one seminar leader for the IABC Global Conference for three consecutive years (2008-2010), and has been asked to speak in IABCs “All Star Track” for the past five years. Steve also speaks at numerous IABC chapter and regional events throughout North America and Europe.

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Hosted Cocktail Reception

DAY 2: PRESENTATIONS

8:45am – 9:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Lee Hornick, Honorary Chair of Forum (USA)

9:00am – 10:00am

Session A: The Unisys Social Intranet

Gloria Burke, Chief Knowledge Officer (USA)

Gloria Burke Headshot

Gloria Burke is Chief Knowledge Officer of Unisys and is responsible for the development of the company's Enterprise Social Business Strategy and its supporting social culture adoption and employee engagement initiatives. Recently Gloria was named by Information Week Magazine as #2 of the Top Ten Social Business Leaders of 2013, and was also recognized in this list in 2012.

10:00am – 11:00am

Session B: The Disney Intranet

Ken Barnett, Sr. Manager, Design & Operations, Disney Consumer Products

Ken Barnett

Ken Barnett is a New Media Designer based in Southern California. Ken’s new media career has spanned almost 20 years, and began his career at The Walt Disney Company in 2001. He is currently the Senior Manager of Design and Operations for the Consumer Products division (DCP). In this role Ken was the lead designer for DCP’s SharePoint based employee intranet which won a Web Award in 2013 for Best Intranet Site.

11:00am – 11:15am

Networking Break

11:15am – 12:00pm

Session C: Get Your Company to Participate in Collaboration

Hope Niblick, Web Collaboration Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Networking Lunch (catered)

1:00pm – 1:45pm

Session D: Social Intranet Expert Panel

With intranet experts Toby Ward, Steve Crescenzo, Gloria Burke (Unisys), and Jerry Stevenson (Baylor Health).

The panel of experts discuss the social intranet and field audience questions on problems and challenges that audience members may be encountering on their respective intranets. It's the free consulting portion of the agenda!

1:45pm - 2:30pm

Session E: Case Study: Scripps Health

Denise Tanguay, Director of Workforce Communications, Scripps Health

2:30pm – 2:45pm

Networking Break

2:45pm – 3:30pm

Session F: Case Study: DIRECTV

Caroline Leach, Vice President of Communications

Caroline and her team in Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago develop and implement corporate communications plans in the areas of employee communications, employee recognition, corporate events, trade shows, corporate citizenship and executive presentations. She joined DIRECTV in 1999 as a communications manager and received a master’s degree in communications management from the Annenberg School for Communication at USC.

3:30pm – 4:15pm

Session G: Social intranet collaboration

Jerry Stevenson, Corporate Communications Manager, Baylor Health

Jerry has a multidisciplinary background includes public relations, organizational communications, human resources, marketing and IT development. He has co-authored a best practices intranet almanac, &spoken at more than 50 conferences and seminars around the world. At Baylor, he's responsible for management, administration, training and strategy for a SharePoint-based intranet, utilized by 35,000 employees across 46 hospitals and 800 patient care locations.

4:15pm – 5:00pm

Session H: Cherry-picking from the World’s best intranets

Toby Ward, CEO, Prescient Digital Media

In the final session of the conference, Toby Ward will demonstrate and showcase some of the very best features, from some of the very best intranets on the planet – with lots of ideas and suggestions for implementation on your intranet. Some of the l

… AND MORE…

COST

For both the workshop and forum May 2015 - $1495 USD

For the workshop only May 2015 - $845 USD

For the forum only May 2015 - $845 USD

CONFERENCE LOCATION USC - Annenberg School of Communications And Journalism Tutor Campus Center 3607 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
CONFERENCE HOTELS Radisson at USC, Los Angeles 3450 S. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90007 1 (866) 299-2910 *Mention the “IABC” or “International Association of Business Communicators” for a 20% discount.*